I certainly hope so, and congratulations to you. It was just a joke. I really wanted the forum to be made, but was uncertain if it would succeed or not. Now I've already learnt plenty of new stuff, and the forum seems to have gotten off to a good start. I hope it will grow into an even bigger success in the future.

Who are the NZ crew? Would be a good base if they could start coming here, though they haven't in the first week.

Well I've noticed a couple users (Shaun, Fred Elliot) that list their location as New Zealand, but they don't post here often, or at least not recently. I'll send them a PM to let them know about this forum anyway.
There's also Toecrusher who lives in New Zealand, but comes from India apparently, so I don't know how interested he'd be in the local scene.